A communications concept could pinpoint a person infected with a deadly, contagious virus in the middle of a crowded airport.
Insyab, a technology startup specializing in smart solutions allowing robots and drones to collaborate on the execution of common tasks, resulted from three years of its founders' dedicated research at KAUST.
New accepted paper: Castro Camilo, D., and Huser, R. (2019+), Local likelihood estimation of complex tail dependence structures, applied to U.S. precipitation extremes, Journal of the American Statistical Association, to appear.
New accepted paper: Lombardo, L., Bakka, H., Tanyas, H., van Westen, C., Mai, P. M., and Huser, R. (2019+), Geostatistical modeling to capture seismic-shaking patterns from earthquake-induced landslides, Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface [PDF preprint]
Algal blooms in the Red Sea can be detected with a new method that accounts for dust storms and aerosols.
A recent study by a team including KAUST Earth scientists and oceanographers revealed that surface temperatures in the Red Sea may be cooling rather than rising.
Prof. Raphaël Huser has been appointed to serve as an Associate Editor for the Econometrics and Statistics (EcoSta) part B (Statistics) starting from May 2019.
KAUST Ph.D. statistics student Jian Cao was recently selected as a best paper award winner by the American Statistical Association (ASA) for his paper entitled "Computing High-Dimensional Normal and Student-t Probabilities with Tile-Low-Rank Quasi-Monte Carlo and Block Reordering." Cao's paper was chosen in an ASA student paper competition under the section on Statistical Computing.
Professor Birgir Hrafnkelsson from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Iceland, will visit extSTAT during February 24-March 2, 2019. His research interests include Bayesian hierarchical modeling, spatial statistics, spatio-temporal modeling, extreme value analysis and statistical modeling of environmental data.
Carolina Euán, a postdoctoral fellow in KAUST Associate Professor Ying Sun's Environmental Statistics research group, recently received the Sylvia Esterby Presentation Award from the International Environmentrics Society (TIES) at the 28th Annual TIES Conference 2018 held from July 16 to 21, 2018, in Guanajuato, Mexico. Euán won the award for her talk entitled "Bernoulli Vector Autoregressive Model with Applications to Spatio-temporal Drought Events in Mexico."
Prof. Raphaël Huser has been appointed to serve as an Associate Editor for the Springer Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics (JABES, 2017 Impact Factor: 1.072) starting from January 2019.
CBRC would like to congratulate the students of CBRC who graduated at the 9th Commencement Ceremony held on December 14, 2018.
On December 14, 2018, KAUST welcomed 243 graduates at the University’s ninth Commencement ceremony. Among them, students Rustam Bekishev and Peng Zhong, who is now a Ph.D. student In Statistics in our group, got their MS degree. Congratulations!
Xiangliang Zhang, associate professor of computer science in the University's Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering division, recently gave an invited Early Career Spotlight Talk at the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI-18) 2018. During the event—which was held in Stockholm, Sweden, from July 13 to 19—Zhang and 21 international peers presented on all areas of artificial intelligence (AI).